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Published on: May 14th, 2019

Want to Bring the World Together? Play Games!﻿

How about a game of pommawanga? Or maybe you prefer wari or yoot? These were among the 50 high-quality wooden games made and sold by Willow Brook resident Mary Lea Bailey through the company she and her husband Warren founded: World . . . Read More

A Caregiver Finds Help at Willow Brook By Day

Caregiver Angela (left) and Sally Gallant, Director of Willow Brook by Day

When Angela’s mother developed Alzheimer’s, Angela faced a quandary. She and her father wanted to keep her mother at home, but they struggled with balancing all of the responsibilities. They . . . Read More

Releasing Grief by Jim Mattox

Releasing Grief, 71 Years Later

By Jim Mattox

I suffered a huge loss when I was seven years old, and I bottled my grief for 71 years. I would never want anyone else to wait that long. I recently shared my story at the Grief Share Group at Willow Brook at Delaware Run, and I hope others . . . Read More

Teachers by Marilyn Schroeder

Teachers

By Marilyn Schroeder

Who are my teachers now I have left the schoolrooms of my youth, now that I am old? Poet Mary Oliver with wisdoms – her arms open to ponds, flowers, creatures lovely and not, her words lights to what I must learn – words rich with how to spend my life. Friends are . . . Read More

Assisted Living By Tom MacLaughlin

Assisted Living – A Short Story

By Tom MacLaughlin

He sits in his favorite chair by the window, and looks out across the lawn at the county road, and watches the cars as they travel past. He thinks back to what it was like to drive a car. That was a few years ago when he was . . . Read More

Centrum Writing Group continued

Centrum Writers Group (continued)

Our Stories

In August, the Centrum Creative Writers won First Place for Cooperative Writing in a state competition sponsored by LeadingAge, a nonprofit association representing more than 400 long-term care organizations. The writers live at the Centrum, Willow Brook Christian Village’s assisted living center. They enjoyed collaborating to record their stories. Here we . . . Read More

Centrum Writing Group

Centrum Writers Group

Our Stories

The Centrum Creative Writers won First Place for Cooperative Writing in a regional competition sponsored in June by LeadingAge, a nonprofit trade association representing more than 400 long-term care organizations. The writers live at the Centrum, Willow Brook Christian Village’s assisted living center. They enjoyed collaborating to record the stories of their . . . Read More

Residents Corner: Ann Hopkins

Quilter Exhibits Her Creative Work

Ann Hopkins first learned to sew as a child and stitched up a storm all of her life. She made her own clothes and clothing for her mother, husband and children. It wasn’t until she retired in 1987 that she found time for another passion: quilting.

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